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Monday, December 1, 2014

Cyber Monday Deals in Womens' Fiction

Toronto Collection 1
– Heather Wardell

"Go Small or Go Home": When massage therapist and
aspiring artist Tess begins treating stressed but attractive hockey star
Forrest, her art career soars due to his gallery-owning mother, but her
creativity plummets under the weight of rules and deadlines. Soon, she's lost
the freedom and joy she'd always found in art. Is having her dream career worth
losing doing her art her way, or can she somehow have both at once?

"Planning to Live": Determined to lose
weight for her best friend's wedding, goal-obsessed Rhiannon flees her parents'
Christmas Day feast to avoid overeating but her car skids off the deserted road
into a tree. Trapped and bleeding, with her cell phone out of reach, she
struggles to escape, and to accept that she's spent her whole life planning but
hasn't ever really lived. Will she get the chance to change that?

"Stir Until Thoroughly Confused":
Mary's given up everything, including an unsatisfying marriage, to become a
chef. But the career comes with a side dish: Kegan, her sexy but controlling
new boss. They're soon in a relationship, and in all-too-frequent arguments,
and when it becomes clear they can't work together and be together Mary faces a
dilemma: keep her dream job or her dream man?

"A Life That Fits":
Twenty-eight-year-old Andrea is devastated when her boyfriend of fourteen years
leaves her for a woman he calls Andrea's opposite. Determined to get him back,
Andrea changes everything in her life. New clothes, new activities, new
friends... she'll be her opposite in no time. But will she change enough to get
Alex back? And if she does, will he fit into her new life?

"Live Out Loud": Songwriter Amy wants to honor her
late best friend by starting the support center for teenage girls they'd
planned when they were just girls themselves. When her song becomes an internet
sensation she sees how to get the money she needs, but soon realizes she adores
her new pop star career. She must choose: create the center she needed herself
as a teen or truly become Misty Will, pop princess.

"Blank Slate Kate": Waking up with a
strange man is scary. Realizing you lost fifteen years of your life overnight?
That's terrifying. With her memories from seventeen to thirty-two gone, Kate
has no idea who she is and where she belongs. As she begins to fall for the man
who found her, she wonders if she forgot those years for a reason. Should she
keep trying to retrieve her original self, or start a new life?

"Finding My Happy Pace": If
thirty-year-old Megan were any more of a doormat, she'd have footprints on her
back. She takes up running to strengthen her body, but marathon training with
cute but heartbroken coach Andrew strengthens her assertiveness too. When her
best friend's demands threaten her race Megan must decide: cave in as she always
has before or stick to her new-found 'happy pace' in running and life.

"All At Sea": Three months after they
met, Melissa will marry Owen on his family's annual cruise. He's a great catch,
though, so although they're moving fast she's sure they'll be fine. But when he
proves to be a gambler and deserts her for the onboard casino, she wonders if
she really knows him and if their marriage will meet her needs. Melissa must
decide: stay with Owen or jump ship.

When a conversation with her husband triggers
questions, Rose Parker uncovers alarming answers that shatter her perfect life.
But it is only when she shoves her belongings in her SUV and drives off that
Rose realizes just how far from perfect her life actually was. She has nowhere
to turn.

While debating between distressing sleeping
arrangements–her mother’s house full of questions or a hotel room with too much
solitude–Rose bumps into an acquaintance from her gardening class and allows
bubbly, exuberant Becky to indulge her in a wild night full of whiskey,
weeping, and whispered confidences. Suddenly, Rose has a new friend, a roof
over her head, and two gorgeous men moving her out of her marital home.

As Rose struggles to settle into her new life,
she remains determined to comprehend her past. And with time and distance and
especially wine, comes knowledge. Frank wasn’t the only one lying to her. Rose
was lying to herself.

Robin wanted to win The Holdout, a cutthroat reality TV show,
so she gave it her all, challenge after challenge. Then she fell for Grant,
with his irresistible eyes and heartbreaking life story.

But Grant was only using Robin as they competed
for a million dollars. Once home, Robin wants to hide from the humiliation as
episodes of The Holdout are aired, and she worries her family was right all
along; she’s not a survivor.

Yet she could surprise everyone, and have the
last laugh.

Besides, Robin now has jury duty. And as she
forges ahead, confronting her demons about bravery, justice, and romance, Robin
will come to decide which is more important: the courage to stand alone, or the
strength to love again.

"I kiss him, choosing love over honesty, which is a
choice nobody should ever have to make…"Robin loves sweet, responsible Nick, with his
penchant for Beethoven and Ben Folds Five. But she also still loves her college
boyfriend Jed, an irreverent playwright plagued with cystic fibrosis. Now Robin
is struggling to reveal her secrets and confront her past, as she finally
performs in the play that Jed wrote for her, eleven years ago. Will Robin have
the strength to keep her promise and stay true to her heart?Alternating between present-day scenes, college
flashbacks, and segments from Jed’s play, this tear-jerking yet uplifting tale
illustrates how life is finite but love is infinite, and the road to recovery
begins with the next breath.

Elle Masters is over dating. It used to be fun: the drama,
the angst, the exhilarating beginnings, the bittersweet middles, the blowout
endings. Then the tears, hangovers, rebounds, and another addition to the
Heartbreak Box in her closet. Now Elle can't remember the last time a guy made
his way into her box. When her friends Rachel and Valerie insist she snap out
of her post-breakup funk with a girls' night out/rebound hunt at a San
Francisco bar, she isn't expecting tall, dark, and hummuna-hummuna, Nick
Wright. This is no rebound guy. He's definitely, maybe, The One. In Coulda,
Woulda, Shoulda, you play Elle as she and her pals put the "antics"
in "romantics." You'll question everything you thought you knew about
love, over-analyzing and second-guessing your way through hundreds of modern
dating dilemmas and passionate predicaments. With 60 Happily Sometimes Afters,
you'll always have another chance with Mr. Wright.

Brynne Ropert and Portland Dolish have been best friends
since being paired as roommates in college. Seven years later they are now
twenty-five, married, and living in Maine–– but the two women couldn’t be more
different. Brynne finds fulfillment in her life as a wife, mother and owner of
a small café and bookshop, but is struggling to expand her family. Portland is
still coping with her mother’s death during her childhood, and her marriage is
unraveling before her eyes. Portland envies her friend’s seemingly stable and
easy life while Brynne doesn’t understand the growing distance between them and
cannot begin to guess what secret Portland is hiding about her husband and
crumbling marriage. While one woman feels shut out, the other enters into a web
of lies to protect herself.

A Questionable Friendship explores what really
makes someone a true friend, a support system, a sister. How much trust goes
into a friendship and when is being a friend not enough? Brynne and Portland’s
story will attempt to answer those questions, and show that happily ever after
isn’t in the cards for everyone.

Thirteen years ago, Holly’s nine-year-old sister, Rachel,
disappeared without a trace. Thirteen years ago, Holly left her hometown.
Thirteen years ago, Holly’s first love and high school boyfriend, Houston, was
the only suspect. Now, another girl has disappeared. Holly is back, and so is
Houston—never charged and still proclaiming his innocence. Can she trust him?
Should she trust him?When out-of-work banking executive Holly McCann
moves to the rural mountain town of White Cove, Virginia to care for her dying
mother, the past collides with the present. A violent crime against her
nine-year-old neighbor evokes memories of the eerily similar disappearance of
her sister thirteen years earlier. Holly is thrilled by the arrival of her
estranged brother, Oliver, but concerned by his mysterious behavior. She is
befriended by the new minister, Jonah, an outsider haunted by his own painful
past, but it is Houston Phelps, the only person arrested for the disappearance
of her sister, who forces Holly to confront the past and start living in the
present.

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